---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sam33r <sameeersi...@gmail.com> Date: 2009/5/14 Subject: Open Source Textbooks For California To: Savithri Singh <singh.savit...@gmail.com>
Sent to you by sam33r via Google Reader: Open Source Textbooks For California<http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9i14vNmCUD8/article.pl> via Slashdot <http://slashdot.org/> by kdawson on 5/10/09 T-1000, appropriately enough, lets us know about a California initiative to compile open source science and math textbooks for the state, in the hopes of saving money. The effort is spearheaded by Gov. Schwarzenegger. "The effort seems very promising, but the state's complex standards and arduous textbook evaluation process will pose major challenges. ... The governator will surely be able to stop the digital textbooks from gaining sentience and subjugating humanity, but there are trickier challenges that will be even tougher to defeat than the impending Skynet apocalypse. Textbooks are a surprisingly controversial issue in California and there is a lot of political baggage and bureaucratic red tape that will make an open source textbook plan especially troublesome. ... [T]he traditional wiki approach is untenable for California teaching material. Individual changes to textbooks can become a source of fierce debate and there are a multitude of special interest groups battling over what the textbooks should say and how they should say it. It would take the concept of Wikipedia edit wars to a whole new level." <http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/1815215&from=rss> Read more of this story<http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/1815215&from=rss>at Slashdot. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Slashdot<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Findex.rss?source=email>using *Google Reader* - Get started using Google Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with *all your favorite sites* -- Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 9786 2584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
